Tookie Not Granted Clemency

From Fox News.

The death penalty of Williams, 51, will go ahead as planned at 3:01 a.m. EST (12:01 PST) at San Quentin State Prison. Williams will be executed for murdering four people in two 1979 holdups.

Williams has consistently denied committing the gruesome killings, but has apologized for forming the notoriously bloodthirsty gang

Now, lets wait to see what happens on the streets. If Tookie has indeed reformed, he will demand calm. He will go to meet his maker humbly and remorseful for what he has done.

If Tookie wanes away quietly, with no command of non-violence, he is making a demand for just that. Lets us see if Tookie speaks with his voice, or with his silence.

Update: 9:34 PM

This comment from an LA Times message board seems to cover pretty much the full scale of opposition to the execution.

All I have to say is this is all bringing blacks and whites against each other and for what? Okay, white people are getting their racist wish: to see a black man put to death at a white persons hands. This is what you wanted right? Now you finally have it. I never knew how many racist people we still had in the world but after reading the comments I know EXACTLY how many we have and that a lot. You talk of equality and loving you brother but no one is doing that? Wouldn’t you think that Tookie Williams would have been confessed to these heinous crimes if he indeed committed them? It all just a bunch of BS and everyone knows is. LEAVE THIS MAN ALONE!!! ONLY GOD CAN JUDGE WHAT THIS MAN HAS TRULY DONE! To all the people who called him a monster and want to see if he takes the gas instead of injection, I hop you burn in hell with you ignorant Asses. Who are you to call the shots? RACISTS, RACISTS, RACISTS!!! You make me hate you as a people. I am ashamed to even live on the same earth as some of you. Dr. Martin Luther King brought us together for no reason. Sometimes, I wonder what would the verdict be if Tookie was white and Albert Owens was black? And another thing: why is it that only the white person who was killed keeps getting flashed on CNN and other news? There were also three Koreans...or did you forget? Your too busy trying to see this man die that you don’t realize you look like KKK'S and slave owners. It makes me sick to see how white people actually think. You never cared about equality and freedom, you just cared about yourselves and now it is truly showing.

Posted by: Jasmine Adams | December 12, 2005 at 05:55 PM

Well, I guess that just about sums it up.